Author Sunjeev Sahota among Booker's 13 contenders this year

Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel China Room, alongside Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro......

Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain wins 2020 Booker, Avni Doshi misses out

New York-based Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the prestigious 50,000-pound Booker Prize for his autobiographical debut novel Shuggie Bain, a coming of age tale of love and alcoholism set in......

The music of Ishiguro's words

'Did the Nobel committee, reviled for awarding Mr Dylan, play a little inside joke this time around, by awarding another lyricist who was once an aspiring musician?' asks Uttaran Das......

Irish writer takes Booker bookies by surprise

Veteran Irish novelist John Banville brought about one of the biggest literary coup when he took the 50,000 Man Booker Prize for fiction from under the noses of the bookies and the pundits. A 7 to......

Watched These Amazing 2022 Movies?

As the pandemic slowed down in 2022, people across the world came back to movie theatres. This summer, Tom Cruise's refurbished Top Gun: Maverick became a huge global hit. And just around the time......

Keira Knightley loves being bad

Get your low down on what's happening in the world of Hollywood, right here! Keira Knightley has revealed she enjoyed the challenge of playing a villain in her new flick Never Let Me Go. The......

10 must-see Hollywood movies this fall

It is difficult to think of any film this fall that is more eagerly awaited than Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh film in the world's most successful franchise. The......

A Redgrave special at Merchant-Ivory

You have two daughters working in films," a reporter said to Vanessa Redgrave. "Wouldn't you want to act with them?"The question was raised a decade ago at the New York press conference of The......